Payment Screening Block sanctioned activity, keep payments flowing
Get greater precision and lower false positives with real-time, AI-powered payment screening technology from Hawk.
Product Highlights Reduce friction for good customers without letting a sanctioned payment through
Screen every transaction instantly (150 ms avg.) across all payment rails with Hawks’ rail-agnostic API
Catch sanctioned entities with precision, screening any payment field with custom weighting, rule-by-rule
Don’t review unchanged hits twice—remember past analyst decisions so alerts are only generated when entity or list data changes
Efficient payment screening Comply effortlessly at scale
Scale your volumes without compromising on compliance by providing your organization with the tools to pinpoint sanctions hits efficiently.
- Transaction screening at scale
- Coverage for any payment rail, through one API
- Integration with global sanctions lists
- Easy list management with ability to create dynamic, tailored sublists
- Payment interdiction
- Self-serve fuzzy matching configuration and tuning
- Click-of-a-button hit dispositioning
- Automated audit trail
- Production sandbox testing
The Hawk Difference Discover how Hawk raises the bar for efficient payment screening
The Traditional Way
- Payments blocked unnecessarily
- Generic algorithm, not purpose-built with transaction screening in mind
- Slow processing and poor scalability
- Costly maintenance with individually mapped connections to each payment rail
- One-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t reflect local regulations
- Hardcoded rules, managed by vendor support team
- Outdated user interface requiring many clicks and one-hit-at-a-time reviews
The Hawk Way
- Friction-right controls with low false positives
- Proprietary fuzzy matching algorithm with granular, rule-specific tuning settings
- 150 ms avg. response time at scale
- Smooth maintenance thanks to uniform payment rail mapping via single API
- Multi-tenant structure that supports multiple regional regulations
- Self-serve model configuration and sandbox testing
- Simplified, unified view of all sanctions hits
Awards & Recognition Leading the industry forward
Learn how Hawk's AI-fueled technology is driving the future of AML & CFT, according to software analysts and industry experts.
All bases, covered
Comply with every sanction and restriction in real time
Sanctions
Prevent sanctioned individuals, entities, and sectors from using your services with automated third-party sanctions lists updates.
Embargos
Halt transactions with embargoed countries with geolocation transaction blocking and country-specific rules.
Dual-Use Goods
Stop payments for controlled goods by monitoring for risky words in transaction fields.
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- Improving investigations
- Enhancing system accuracy
- Optimizing workflows
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Catch more risk. Investigate faster. Scale without adding headcount across AML, screening & fraud
Request a personalized demo with a Hawk product expert and see how Hawk's AI-powered platform for AML, screening, and fraud prevention can strengthen your financial crime and compliance program without a multi-year migration.
During the demo, you'll see:
- How Hawk helps you catch more true risk while cutting false positives across AML, screening, and fraud
- How Hawk's AI agents can automate alert investigations, and catch what your team never had the hours to find, backed by full governance and human-in-the-loop controls
- How explainable, compliance-ready AI holds up under your regulators' and model risk management scrutiny
- Why institutions, like yours, choose Hawk for fast time to value — live in month, not years, with models that deliver precision from day one
- The results you could expect at your scale, based on peer outcomes